Dido Armstrong Quotes
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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Say yes to everything.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
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I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.
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We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
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The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
